Sold Short Mailer

This piece was designed to raise awareness on the difficulties faced by American foster children who so rarely find a loving, permanent home and are often repeatedly returned to the system, leaving them “sold short” of a stable upbringing. The mailer is intended to surprise it’s parent-aged recipients by taking the form of product packaging, complete with a user-manual for the commodified “Foster Katie.” The piece also provides a brief history of Katie’s time in foster care along with some powerful statistics about the continued displacement of the American foster child before calling on the reader to consider becoming a permanent parent to a child in need.

Foster Katie history and foster care statistics panel ended by the call to action